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Seahorses use a spring motion to quickly capture their food

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Seahorses have a super strong gulp thanks to two spring-like tendons

Elastic tendons let seahorses suck in water around eight times faster than they could using muscle power alone

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An African bush elephant in Amboseli National Park, Kenya

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Wild African elephants may have domesticated themselves

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Ants independently evolved to farm fungus at least twice

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A Tyrannosaurus rex eats a juvenile Edmontosaurus

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T. rex鈥檚 terrifying teeth would have been hidden behind scaly lips

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2F618EY Landing of the James Caird On South Georgia, 1916

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Presence review: A lively look at why we experience ghostly presences

Culture

Life

Our attempts to kill cockroaches forced them to evolve new sex moves

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City life may help Darwin's finches survive bloodsucking flies

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Beetle daisy (Gorteria diffusa), Springbok, Namaqualand, South Africa - Image ID: C119J6 (RF)

Life

How daisies make deceptive petals that look like female flies

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The slime mould Dictyostelium discoideum is used to study the origins of multicellularity

Life

How did multicellular life evolve? Algae and yeast give some hints

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Earth

Oxygen on early Earth may have come from quartz crushed by earthquakes

Billions of years ago, crushed quartz reacting with water could have created the conditions needed for the evolution of the photosynthetic microbes responsible for most of the oxygen now in Earth鈥檚 atmosphere

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Life

How poisonous amphibians evolve bright colours to warn predators off

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Humans

The archaeologists recreating the secrets of prehistoric technology

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Life

Stone flakes made by monkeys cast doubt on ancient human 'tools'

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Fossil thought to be earliest bryozoan animal may actually be seaweed

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